PM Orbán: Hungary stands by Poland amid EU ‘abuse of power’
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday met Polish President Andrzej Duda in Budapest, and said that Hungary supported Poland amid “the attack from Brussels”, the PM’s press chief said.
The talks focused on current issues, especially on the European Commission’s request that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) impose a fine on Poland until it suspends disciplinary chamber for judges of its supreme court, Bertalan Havasi said.
Orbán called the move an “unprecedented abuse of power”. The EC attacked the constitutional institutions and identity of a sovereign state, Havasi cited Orban as saying. Meanwhile, Poland continues to protect the EU’S outer borders from growing illegal migration, Orban said.
The procedure is “outrageous, totally unacceptable and pulls apart the unity of the EU”,
Orbán said. Hungary issued a statement late on Wednesday, declaring support for Poland. It will also look into ways to back Poland during the court proceedings, Orbán said.
Source: MTI
The Polish are our friends forever.
The abuse of power is the Polish government using a disciplinary panel which it appoints and packs with its own people to discipline judges that reach verdicts that the government does not like. The Judiciary is supposed to be free from political interference.
Like the hussein obama judges? -:)
It has become patently obvious where Anonymous is “coming from” : ignoring the sovereignty of Poland or furthermore ALL OTHER EU countries.
The EU doesn’t CONSULT, the EU DEMANDS ABSOLUTE POWER, the EU is a TYRANT.
The poor hopeful countries who joined the Eu for TRADE are now being subjugated by IRRESPONSIBLE, POWER-HUNGRY, CORRUPT, FAILED POLITICIANS.
What happened to RESPECT AND COOPERATION ??
WAKE-UP EUROPE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE !!!!!!!!
We stand with our Polish friends
István -You are confusing the US Supreme Court (now packed with Republicans but independent) with a government controlled disciplinary panel. Not the same thing at all.
Louisa – the independence of the judiciary is a fundamental aspect of democracy and is enshrined in EU law (as well in Constitutions elsewhere). You are talking nonsense, again. Sigh.
The US Supreme Court is NOT packed with Republicans and NOT independent. The communist Democrat controlled Congress blackmails the court conservative justices by threatening to pack the court with far-left judges unless the slight conservative majority bends to their wishes. Roberts is a liberal. The Clinton and Obama appointed so-called judges are blatant radical-left activists. The US judiciary is not and never was independent.
Hungary and Poland inherited too many communist judges that prevented judicial review of communist crimes and continue to undermine the will of the people. Not one communist murderer was made to account for his crimes because of communist controlled Hungarian and Polish judiciary. They should be fired but at least disciplined when they try to impose their communist values on the people.
I suspect that you are not Hungarian and have no understanding of our history.